PRONI Compliance with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
A Practice Recommendation issued by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) led to the development of the ICO Action Plan to remove the backlog of outstanding FOIA requests.
On 15 January 2025 PRONI and the Department for Communities were issued with a Practice Recommendation by the Information Commissioners Office. This was issued under section 48 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) due to PRONI’s low rate of compliance with Freedom of Information Act 2000 requests, associated timescales and the extent of the overall historical backlog of outstanding access to information requests.
PRONI has now developed an Action plan setting out the measures it will take to remove the backlog of outstanding FOIA requests. The Action plan will enable PRONI to comply with statutory timescales as set out in the FOIA.
PRONI has also produced a report showing the progress being made to comply with the Practice Recommendation. Further progress reports will be published by PRONI on a quarterly basis.